In January, a group of evangelical Christians and scientists announced they would work together to persuade US political, church and scientific leaders to act to curb climate change. It is an unlikely marriage between two camps diametrically opposed on the circumstances of the earth’s creation but willing to collaborate to save it from destruction.

Rich Cizik, public policy director for the National Association of Evangelicals (NAE), and Eric Chivian, director of the Center for Health and the Global Environment at Harvard Medical School, led the group of 28 signatories to a statement calling for urgent changes in values, lifestyles and public policies to curtail climate change. The “Urgent Call to Action: Scientists and Evangelicals United to Protect Creation” effort is being called the boldest evangelical step yet into the world of environmental activism.

Cizik says evangelicals, now America’s largest religious and political constituency, have to be even more vigilant than others, or be judged for destroying God’s creation. In an uncommon endorsement, Cizik says science can be an ally to help religious believers understand what faith is telling them.

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